While no breakthrough is expected on European asylum reform, however, EU interior ministers will be invited, at the EU Council meeting on Thursday, 7 March in Brussels, to take note of a progress report on the various elements of the legislative package (‘asylum’ package) presented by the Commission in May 2016. They should also have a discussion on this subject, a diplomatic source said the day before.
On 5 March, the European Commissioner for Migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, called on...